Three-block scheme to contain more than 1,000 student beds
Bruntwood SciTech and the University of Manchester have submitted plans for a 1,000-home student accommodation tower scheme as the latest phase of the pair’s £1.7bn Sister development.
The Hodder & Partners-designed scheme would be built on Plot H of the 18ha masterplan, replacing the site’s existing Charles Street multi-storey car park.
The scheme consists of a 38-storey tower and two smaller blocks of 10 and eight storeys, providing 720 cluster bedrooms, 321 studio bedrooms, 600sq m of commercial space and 1,500sq m of amenity space.
Layer Studio is landscape architect on the scheme with the project team also including Deloitte on planning, Roscoe on structures, HGCE on M&E, Civic on transport, Stephen Levrant on heritage and GIA on daylight.
The tower would be by far the tallest building in its immediate neighbourhood, although several of the site’s surrounding mid-rise buildings have been earmarked for high-rise redevelopment.
Other tower schemes set to be built in the neighbourhood include Hodder & Partners’ 35-storey Hotspur Press scheme and Sheppard Robson’s 28-storey IQ Echo Street.
Sister is a 15-year plan to transform the University of Manchester’s former North Campus into a four million sq ft commercial and innovation district with up to 1,500 homes and nine acres of public space.
The first scheme on the development, the renovation of the 1960s Renold Building as the Renold Innovation Hub, opened in 2024. Allies & Morrison submitted plans for two office blocks of 12 and 20 storeys as the masterplan’s first commercial phase last year.
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